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Can "second life" EV batteries work as grid-scale energy storage? Colin Campbell explains how Redwood drains every drop of capacity from used batteries before they are recycled.

Lots of questions about Redwood's use of second-life batteries. Luckily I did a pod on it! Super-interesting stuff:

This is what hope looks like.

Local elections are in 17 days.

Register to vote before MIDNIGHT TONIGHT and let's make hope normal again:

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The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

One of the Sandy Hook families lives in hiding 1500 mi away from their baby’s grave due to people stalking them.

The graves of multiple children have been defaced.

One of the fathers had to submit DNA evidence to prove his son was a REAL HUMAN BEING after Alex Jones’ book said he never existed.

“For over a month, my office has gone back and forth with ICE officials about Andrea’s condition,” said @repangiecraig.bsky.social. “We’ve been ignored, put off, and lied to about the treatment she has received while in detention.”

I genuinely can't believe what we've seen today.

It's like Jim Crow fvcking America or something.

How is a powerful white man allowed to speak and to, and publicly humiliate a young brown woman like this in 2026?

Cvnt should be expelled from Parliament permanently.

TODAY! 12 noon FREE ISAAC VILLEGAS APRIL 17TH • 12PM Villegas Molina FEDERAL BUILDING CORNER OF ALAMEDA AND E ALISO ST

🚨LOS ANGELES!! One of our co-plaintiffs in Vasquez Perdomo v DHS has been detained in apparent violation of immigration court order. Rally TODAY at noon in downtown LA, demanding Isaac to be freed. (Corner of Alameda and E Aliso St, Los Angeles)

The Fraud's Prayer:
Our Father, who art in the White House,
hallowed be thy combover;
thy blingdom come;
thy will be dumb;
In Washington as you are in Florida.
Give us this day our daily round of golf.
And forgive us our insider trading,
as we refuse to forgive those who investigate against us...

"We won’t share our naval route with cargo ships headed to the occupier and do nothing. We rise for Palestine and we resist the colonization of the Mediterranean. The Sea is OURS"

It’s not media cluelessness – it’s cowardice and complicity But there’s another word starting with “C” that describes some journalists: courage.

Journalists might've once had the excuse that the didn’t realize how bad MAGA extremism would be. But they can't plead cluelessness now. What’s left are cowardice, complicity and courage. Pick one.
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OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened.

Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah.

(h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)

Unlike some, I don't find this to be a hard question. TikTok video by Graham Platner for Senate

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkHQBxWf/

THIS is why Graham Platner is going to win.

Facebook and Instagram Tighten Censorship Rules for Saying “Antifa” #politics #tech YouTube video by The Intercept

Have you been censored for posting about "Antifa" on FB or IG?

Read more: interc.pt/3OfYThZ

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Number go up Our charts tell the story of oligarchy in overdrive.

AI lobbying is skyrocketing. Meta spent more on lobbying in 2025 than America’s three largest oil and gas companies combined.

By 2030, data centers will consume as much energy as 41 million US homes.

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

Please stand by for more.

Greenpeace activists stage demonstration at Trump Turnberry golf course in Scotland Environmental activists staged a renewable energy demonstration at one of US President Donald Trump's golf courses in Scotland.

Greenpeace activists stage demonstration at Trump Turnberry golf course in Scotland

Bereaved Covid Families Demand Nigel Farage Sack Conspiracy Theory Reform Candidates Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice tell the Reform leader that the conspiracy views revealed by Byline Times are "an insult" to the 230,000 people who died in the pandemic

Bereaved Covid Families Demand Nigel Farage Sack Conspiracy Theory Reform Candidates – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2026/04/20/b...

On Saturday, April 25, communities across the country will come together for the Communities Not Cages National Day of Action @fsfp.bsky.social @moveon.org @publiccitizen.bsky.social @detentionwatchnetwork.org @indivisible.org
#CommunitiesNotCages #HumanRights #ImmigrantRights

I study racist politicians from the Jim Crow era and this is on par with anything that John Rankin, Theodore Bilbo, or Cotton Ed Smith ever said in public

Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.

"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X.

I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!).

So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

Seats under various MRP Projections More In Common, YouGov, FindOutNow, JL Partners SNP 57 67 67 57 Labour 16 15 14 21 Conservatives 12 7 12 13 Liberal Democrats 14 9 8 8 Greens 8 11 13 11 Reform 22 20 15 19

On the topic of MRPs being effectively useless, I think the Telegraph/JL Poll messed up their own D'Hondt calculations.

The real numbers are:
SNP: 57
Labour:21
Conservatives: 13
Liberal Democrats: 8
Greens: 11
Reform: 19

This is really basic stuff.

Outside NYC’s ‘Sanctuary City,’ Local Police Routinely Collude With ICE A review of federal court documents by THE CITY reveals three dozen cases in which local law enforcement allegedly cooperated with ICE agents.

A review of federal court documents by THE CITY reveals three dozen cases in which local law enforcement on Long Island and in counties north of New York City allegedly cooperated with ICE agents.

Fired by Trump, this immigration judge set off on the migrant trail This U.S. immigration court judge began an adventure south of the border after Trump fired him.

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